Ostapchuk returned to Belarus. Random drug testing for athletes is conducted by medical teams from the country they live in.

In Minsk in Belarus on July 18, she threw 21.58m, a two-metre improvement in six weeks since she threw in Rome.

The first and only meeting with independent drug testing she's thrown over 21 metres at in 2012 was the Olympics. You join the dots.

Ostapchuk is complaining that she passed 16 drug tests since April.

She's especially aggrieved that her last three tests, on July 25 and 26, and August 1, all came up clean. They were all done in Belarus.

Experts in the field of drug use by athletes often mention a rough, but often accurate, rule of thumb for female steroid users.

The drugs wreak havoc with their complexion. Good skin, clean athlete. Bad skin, maybe not. Think back to the awards ceremony for the women's shot in London. Adams and the bronze medal winner, Evgeniia Kolodko, had blemish free faces that glowed the way you'd expect from young, super fit athletes. Ostapchuk had the skin tone of a 40-year-old smoker.

One last thing. You may wonder why an athlete would be stupid enough to keep using steroids so close to an Olympics, when the drugs get out of the system in weeks, but keep providing performance benefits for months.